Kenya

Photo: Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve

Sunset falls on a Maasai boy on Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve.

Photograph by Jen Eudy, My Shot

Beach and bush only begin to describe the variety of offerings awaiting visitors to this vaguely trapezoidal nation south of Sudan and Ethiopia whose southern edge slips into the Indian Ocean. • Often described as an Africa in miniature because it provides a taste of nearly all the continent's attractions, Kenya is peopled by a welter of different ethnic groups, each having arrived in one of countless migrations from the far corners of the continent and beyond. • Want to see the world's most intense traffic jam? Check out the wildebeest migration in the Masai Mara National Reserve.

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